Sprint 3: Oct 1-12, 2018

Sprint Summary

Our third (virtual) community sprint featured eight developers and three coaches, representing eleven institutions and five countries. Six sprint participants had participated in a previous sprint. It's wonderful to see their continued progress and support for DSpace, while also seeing two new people join the effort!

During the two-week sprint, seven Pull Requests (PRs) were developed, approved & merged into DSpace 7, with another seven PRs still in-progress. On the Angular UI side, we saw new translations of the existing UI (Czech, Dutch and German) along with bug fixes / minor enhancements.  On the REST API side, we saw the creation of new endpoints (for creating communities and groups), enhanced Submission functionality, OpenSearch support and numerous bug fixes.

• Completed
  • REST API: #2187, #2228, #2232, #2238
  • Angular UI: #296, #297, #300, #303
• In-Progress
  • REST API: #2128, #2215, #2239
  • Angular UI: #294, #307, #308

Sprint Participants

Thanks to our Sprint #3 Participants and their institutions! We appreciate your hard work during this sprint, and we hope to see you continue to contribute to DSpace.

• Pascal-Nicolas Becker (The Library Code, Germany)
• Stefan Fritzsche (TU-Dresden, Germany)
• Alina Budnitzki (TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Germany)
• Michael Spalti (Willamette University, USA)
• Bill Tantzen (University of Minnesota, USA)
• Oliver Goldschmidt (Hamburg University of Technology, Germany)
• Christian Scheible, (University of Konstanz, Germany)
• Pablo Prieto, (Almat, Mexico)

Sprint Coaches

Thanks also to our Sprint #3 Coaches!  Your help and support during the sprint was noted as a great positive in the participant feedback (see below)

• Art Lowel (Atmire, Belgium) 
• Andrea Bollini (4Science, Italy)
• Tim Donohue (DuraSpace)

Sprint Schedule

• Sprint Meetings (Please do your best to attend all three meetings. If you cannot attend a meeting, please touch base with Tim Donohue with us in the #dev-sprint Slack channel for any updates, etc.)
  • Sprint 2 Kick Off Meeting (one hour): Monday, Oct 1 at 14:00UTC (10:00am EDT) 13:00UTC (9:00am EDT) in DSpace Meeting Room
  • Mid-Sprint Meeting (one hour): Monday, Oct 8 at 14:00UTC (10:00am EDT) in DSpace Meeting Room
  • Sprint Wrap-Up (Closing) Meeting (one hour): FridayThursday, Oct 1211 at 14:00UTC (10:00am EDT) in DSpace Meeting Room
• Daily Standups are on #dev-sprint channel in Slack. Just provide your daily updates via text chat, prior to 15:00UTC each day.
• More information on Sprint Schedule / Meetings can be found at Sprint Schedule

Sprint Goals

(NOTE: Finalized Sprint Goals will be coming soon. Obviously, the primary goal is to create Sprint tasks for both the new Angular UI and REST API that can be claimed by our sprint participants.)

1. Approve/merge submission & workflow codebases in REST API and Angular UI (4Science team, Tim and others)
2. Improvements to Angular UI and REST API
   1. See Sprint Tickets below
3. Alphabetic jump to (specific letter) in results listing
   
   1. E.g. Jump to a Title / Author starting with a specific letter or string, like http://demo.dspace.org/xmlui/browse?type=title
4. Build out Administrative Search/Browse tools (each of these tools is limited to Site Administrators)
   1. Find Item by Internal Item ID/Item Handle  (e.g. XMLUI: http://demo.dspace.org/xmlui/admin/item , JSPUI: http://demo.dspace.org/jspui/tools/edit-item)
   2. Administrative Search feature, which allows for faceted searching & browsing of "hidden" items.  This feature would replace the following two Administrative Browse use cases (by providing a way to filter items by withdrawn status and/or private status)
      1. Browse Withdrawn Items (by Title) (e.g. XMLUI: http://demo.dspace.org/xmlui/admin/withdrawn , JSPUI: http://demo.dspace.org/jspui/dspace-admin/withdrawn)
      2. Browse Private Items (by Title) (e.g. XMLUI: http://demo.dspace.org/xmlui/admin/private , JSPUI: http://demo.dspace.org/jspui/dspace-admin/privateitems)
5. Administrative Edit Item form
   1. Build a simple edit item form that mirrors the existing XMLUI and JSPUI edit item pages (e.g. XMLUI: http://demo.dspace.org/xmlui/admin/item, JSPUI: http://demo.dspace.org/jspui/tools/edit-item)
      1. This form should allow Administrators to add/update/delete any metadata field values for this item.
      2. This form should allow Administrators to withdrawn/reinstantiate the item
      3. This form should allow Administrators to make the item discoverable/private
      4. This form should allow Administrators to add/update/delete bitstreams attached to the item.
      5. This form should allow Administrators to delete an item
6. Improve developer documentation / getting up-to-speed documentation.

Sprint Tickets

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Angular UI tickets

All Angular UI tickets are managed in GitHub Issues (under the DSpace/dspace-angular project). You will need developer access to claim individual GitHub tickets (contact Tim Donohue or Art Lowel (Atmire))

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